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Bright Artist Adele Leyris’ work for the cover of The Plant Hunter was unveiled this month over on Welbeck Publishing’s Twitter channel, showcasing the beautiful design as well as an insight into the amazing embroidery work that brought the cover to life. The Plant Hunter, written by T.L. Mogford releases February 2022.
You can see more of Adele Leyris’ work in her portfolio HERE
Lizzie King has been commissioned by Gillette and Agile Films to illustrate the hand of England footballer Raheem Sterling, choosing his lucky football boots. The drawings were then made into an animation as part of Gillette’s feature on pre-game rituals with magazine, Hypebeast.
“I loved seeing my drawings turned into an animation! I am terrible at technical things like that so it’s pretty magical to me to see my drawings move.”
Not being a massive football buff, Lizzie had to do a little research on football boots, as well as Sterlings arms to make sure she captured his tattoos, “The feedback from my first draft was that the arm looked too feminine! (I had been drawing my own arm admittedly) I then got my dad to lift some shoes off a shelf while I drew his arm which looked much better!”
Lizzie King is represented by The Artworks
Lucy Rose has created an updated identity for Heron Valley; a Devon – based cider and juice producer, who also happen to be local to Lucy! The updated identity takes their majestic Heron icon and gives it a more artisanal, botanical feel.
The client and Lucy worked together to come up with a composition that could be complimented by Art Deco/ botanical borders, “this was a relatively fast process as I think the client and I had the same ideas in mind.” Opting for a vintage colour palette (a perfect match for Lucy), the final design soars with subtle sophistication but remains grounded with earthy warm tones.
“This project has been so great to work on and I enjoyed every bit of it. For a while I have wanted to work on some more packaging- based briefs and so when this job came up, I was thrilled to get another opportunity to. I think also the company being local to me and so friendly has just made the whole process even more special.”
Adam Allsuch Boardman makes a lovely set of illustrations for Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine
Denis Freitas creates the art for a premium pop-up-box for the sports equipment brand Asics.
Andressa Meissner is invited to illustrate the portrait of Ishita Malaviya, India's first professional surfer for the latest book in the award winning Rebel Girls series
Phosphor's Christopher Nielsen was recently commissioned by The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) to illustrate an article in their supporters' magazine.
Anna Doherty is an author illustrator from Edinburgh, whose work grabbed the attention of publishers at her Children's Book Illustration MA graduation show from Cambridge School of Art. Her final year project on Ada Lovelace was picked up by Wren and Rook and was transformed into the successful Fantastically Feminist series. Since then, Anna has enjoyed working across a range of projects featuring illustrations that are full of warmth, humour and adorable characters.
Mark Boardman’s creative application of light and shade was put to great use for the cover and inside illustrations for California Water Service Group’s Annual Report which has just been published, entitled A Light in the Dark.
